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iOS 12 Hidden Features: New Close App Gesture on iPhone X, Revamped iPad Gestures, Screen Time Widget and More
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While you're joking, Memoji is going to sell a crap ton of phones. Cat fishing is now live, baby!
Yes the font on the keyboard prediction area is different, iPhone X swipe up on the apps to delete no holing then swiping, there were a couple new control Center toggles too I believe, like the qr and hearing ones.
Side note, the “SwiftShot” game they demoed, is that available somewhere or only apple has it?
I also had 2 new voices for Siri (well 4 because 2 for each) Irish and South African. Neither sound all that different so not sure if that’s in there by mistake or not.
And palmerc 100% agree we now have dark mode for Mac, we got it for tv, certain apps like books has a complete dark mode for the book (not the app) and yet the only device that dark mode makes a difference on is iPhone X, soon the iPads and also the new phones this year. I am really confused what is going on in their minds.
Side note, the “SwiftShot” game they demoed, is that available somewhere or only apple has it?
I also had 2 new voices for Siri (well 4 because 2 for each) Irish and South African. Neither sound all that different so not sure if that’s in there by mistake or not.
And palmerc 100% agree we now have dark mode for Mac, we got it for tv, certain apps like books has a complete dark mode for the book (not the app) and yet the only device that dark mode makes a difference on is iPhone X, soon the iPads and also the new phones this year. I am really confused what is going on in their minds.
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I find it odd Apple is offering the OPTION for dark theme on macOS, and not offer the same on iOS. I really hope a dark theme on iOS still happens.
Background app refresh and general abilities of apps running in the background are not the same thing. Neither one should be causing battery drain that is really noticeable. But at times some apps can abuse some of those things, either on purpose or indirectly in some way, and it can be good to close them.
Beats me. Seems very nice and exactly what my wife and I have been looking for. Already set up controls for my daughter.
Something unique that the new hardware would be more capable of supporting generally speaking. Something like dark mode doesn't seem like would be something that really fits with that.
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Just a couple of iOS versions ago we had grouping and sorting options. Not quite the same as the new ones seem to be, but they were there not too long ago.
The close app by just swiping up on the X is long overdue. Was a stupid implementation in the first place imho.
I think it’s just an Apple hater.
Dark mode makes sense now with the iPhone X... it’s possible they will release it with 12.1 with the oled iPads and refreshed iPhones but I think we would be lucky to get it with next years redesign. After that, hope is lost
@0014 almost seemed like an oversight on their part that they just didn’t address till iOS 12
Seems like they might have had some reasoning for it, but perhaps it didn't quite live up to what they were thinking.
When wanting to send a photo/video from photo library in iMessage, you no longer use the camera button to the left of the text box. There is a new (?) photos app in the iMessage app drawer that brings up the photo/video library. I assume this is to better integrate smart photo sharing suggestions.
Was there a background word cloud of additional features, like the ones I saw for watchOS and macOS? The watchOS cloud had "Choose Wi-Fi Network," something I've been dying to see added to iOS Control Center forever. It would be great not to have to launch Settings to switch networks; ditto for BT devices.
No - that would require 40.000.001 instead of 40.000.000 million computations per second
Anyone tried their AirPods on iOS 12? Is connecting any quicker and have you noticed if they stay connected more consistently? iOS 11 really went backwards with AirPods, they sometimes randomly disconnect after an album or video finishes playing for me and sometimes the only way to get my device to connect to them is via the Settings app (it just sits there spinning when I try doing it from Control Centre).
I was hoping for a dedicated Control Centre widget to connect to them as I’m always switching between my iPhone and iPad and the faster it is to switch the better!
I was hoping for a dedicated Control Centre widget to connect to them as I’m always switching between my iPhone and iPad and the faster it is to switch the better!
I like what apple have done personally
Small changes but good ones and hopefully means better performance
Love we have group notifications and podcast app finally
Small changes but good ones and hopefully means better performance
Love we have group notifications and podcast app finally
Normals aren't closing apps for memory or power management. They're decluttering the app switcher. It's like browser tabs: some people are cool with 40 tabs open, other people meticulously close every inactive tab.
Apple's attempt to discourage the unwashed masses from closing apps undoubtedly resulted in volumes of frivolous and furious tech support queries from users who assumed app closing was broken.
They are unifying their gestures and from the rumours (and the natural development) it appears that the future will be all screen anyways. I always find it irritating when I switch to my iPad after using my iPhone, when I want to access the controls but it doesn't work like I'm used to (as the phone is the main device).
There's some nice improvements here, especially Siri shortcuts. But realistically all changes to apps like group facetime and memoji could surely be added as an app update, if only Apple updated apps separately from iOS releases, which they don't for most of the apps.
Watch them release all the camera stuff that children like so much and then it going out of date as no new faces and filters will be made available as frequently as they are on social media apps that pioneered this crap.
I also like the changes to ipad multitasking and app closing. I never used the home button for this anyway, as was using the four finger gestures to close apps, and switch between them. Can anyone on iOS12 with an iPad confirm if the 4 finger gestures are now gone?
Watch them release all the camera stuff that children like so much and then it going out of date as no new faces and filters will be made available as frequently as they are on social media apps that pioneered this crap.
I also like the changes to ipad multitasking and app closing. I never used the home button for this anyway, as was using the four finger gestures to close apps, and switch between them. Can anyone on iOS12 with an iPad confirm if the 4 finger gestures are now gone?